Definition of Abolition

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Definition of Abolition
	Abolition The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. Related Definitions: Abolished, Abolishing, Abolition, Abrogation, Act, An, Annulling, As, Being, Destruction, Of, Or, Slave, Slavery, State, The, Trade, Utter

Abolition Quotations

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mohandas Gandhi

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
George Washington

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest Hemingway

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
James Madison

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
Edward Abbey

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
Marquis de Sade

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Michel Foucault

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
Benjamin Tucker

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
C. L. R. James

Abolition Translations

abolition in Afrikaans is opsegging
abolition in Dutch is afschaffing
abolition in French is abolition, suppression, annulation
abolition in German is Abschaffung {f}
abolition in Italian is abrogazione
abolition in Swedish is avskaffande

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